SISYRINCHIUM BERMUDIANA. 109 
osenanes ni seeing living plants at Eltham, followed Plukenet 
n distinguishing these two species, and Asean better figures and 
fee complet sus and them in the ‘ Hortus Elthamensis.’ 
inneus, who we assume did not see the Bermudan plant, as 
there is no Aaah in his herbarium, united the two, as varieties 
of one, under the name of S. Bermudiana. Miller, who seems to 
have been the most accomplished English yee of his day, was 
the first to Pinte the two forms to specific rank. This was in 
es In 1789 ‘Carlie seared vr true Hieilan plant and 
d upon its specific rank, remarking that he had livin 
lenis before him of both of Ba species figured by Dillenius. 
Unfortunately he gave it a new specific name, for which he after- 
wards expressed his regret. The first DeCandolle Mig the say 
to the excellent figure of the Bermudan pla which 
published in Redouté’s ‘ Liliacées,’ at the Sanining: of the ‘cat 
century, and he particularly points out its distinctive characters. 
I have not taken the trouble to turn up every book in which the two 
botanists seem to peste greed that there is only one 2 Spee of 
a ee in the eastern States, and this they designate 8S. 
Bermudiana. The obFOF poten arose in consequence of. the 
Bermudan plant disappearing from European gardens, though the 
name was retained. S. Bermudiana requires the shelter of a 
greenhouse in this country, not merely to protect it from frost, but 
also to enable it to attain its full wed Sa while S. angusti- 
cited below of his S. gramin 
e synonymy of vm eeyodan plant follows: 
Sisyrincnrum Bermuprana Linn. Sp. Pl., ed.l. p ). 954 (quoad 
tantum) ; Miller Diets ed, 6; auisek Encycl. Method. Bot. i 
p. 408 ; Redouté, Lil. t. 149. 
Sisynrichium Bermudense floribus parvis, ex ceruleo & aureo 
mixtis; Iris Phalangoides quorundam; Plukenet, Almagestum, 
Pp. 348, et Phytogr., t. 61, fig. 2, 
ermudiana Tridia folio, fibrosé radice, Tournefort, Inst. Rei 
Herb., p. 888, t. 108; Dillenius, Hort. Elth., Ag 48, t. 41, fig. 48. 
Sisyrinchivun iidiokdes Curtis, Bot. Mag., t. 94. 
Lo — Bermudianum, var. 1, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
n 
Endemic j in the Bermudas. 
Besides the viii specimens alluded to above, there are 
cultivated specimens at Kew from the Ne of Bishop 
Goodenough, s cdangtl by the Corporation of Car 
Sisyrinchium Bermudiana differs from S. engin in being 
much larger in all its parts, and sirikiaphy so in its broad leaves, 
which are squint at the base; hence Curtis’s name inidivides. It 
grows eighteen to twenty-four inches high, and is stout in pro- 
